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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Miss Havisham, people.  Miss Havesham.  She makes Great Expectations WORTH reading: best villain ever.  She lives in a creepy old mansion alone, wearing the tattered remains of the wedding dress she first put on years and years ago when her fiance stood her up on her wedding day.  She had the clocks in her mansion stopped at that time, and has the wedding spread table still set out, moldering under cobwebs.  And she's OBSESSED with getting her revenge on men.  So obsessed that she takes a little orphan girl and raises her to be a heartbreaking temptress, keeping her isolated in the old moldy mansion so no outside influences will halt the corruption.  AND THEN, Miss Havisham invites Pip, the main character, into the creepy old mansion to meet young Estella (the little girl Miss H has warped in the hopes of carrying out her revenge).

Read it, really.  So, so good.  [/quote]

I need to read it again.  We read it in 9th grade English class in my NY state public high school, right after The Scarlet Letter (ok, so I skipped over the Custom House Sketch ... ).  It doesn't bother me that an elementary school teacher would not know this -- maybe she read Billy Budd instead of Great Expectations -- but it would be horrifying if an English teacher wasn't familiar with Great Expectations.

And Miss Havisham was completely creepy!  Still can't believe //[b]SPOILER ALERT[/b]// that she wasn't Pip's benefactor.

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We had it in 9th grade English class as well in my school half way across the globe from here. I need to read it again, can't seem to remember the details despite the spoiler! All I remember is Pip (Phillip Pirrip), and how everything was sad, dreary, cold and depressing.[/quote]

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